The impact of the King James Bible, which was published 400 years ago, is still being felt in the way we speak and write, says Stephen Tomkins. No other book, or indeed any piece of culture, seems ...

Begat: The King James Bible And The English Language By David Crystal Hardcover, 320 pages Oxford University Press, USA List price: $24.95. Read An Excerpt "I found 257," Crystal reports.

James died from a stroke in March 1625, so he never saw his Bible become widely accepted. But even during his lifetime, after James commissioned the translation, he didn't oversee the process himself.

How the King James Bible Came to Be 5 minute read 10th June 1953: The first issue of the first edition of the 'Authorised Version' of the English Bible, printed in London in 1611 by Robert Barker.

The King James Bible, ... Norway, in 2024, showing the tongue-nibbling interaction between two free-ranging killer whales. LATEST ARTICLES. 1.

English-speaking Christians were handed the King James Bible 400 years ago. But much of it was copied from a translation made 50 years earlier by William Tyndale. Rev. Paul Cross, who teaches at ...

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, MARCH 24, 1603, KING JAMES I ASCENDS TO THRONE: AMERICAN COLONIZER, BIBLE NAMESAKE. Robert Aitken, a Philadelphia bookseller born in Scotland, published a version of the ...

A page of the original King James Bible Garry Wilmore - Flickr/Creative Commons When an archive yields an unexpected discovery, it's usually cause for celebration. But when that discovery involves ...